Progress Bar is a page on Nothingness (nothingness.dev) that displays a loading bar taking exactly 5 minutes to fill from 0% to 100%. The bar moves at a fully randomised pace — never more than 5% at once, never frozen for more than 30 seconds. It is a deliberate, slow, and pointless tribute to the old-school file transfer progress bar. JavaScript is required to use it.

A tribute to the progress bar. Back when loading something meant watching a thin rectangle fill up — pixel by pixel, at its own pace. You'd hover your cursor over it just to check it was still alive.

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